Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation: Volume I: Structures and Assertions - Hardcover

Comprehensive Academic Reference on European History 1400-1600

The Handbook of European History 1400-1600 represents an authoritative compilation of scholarship covering the Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation periods. This first volume, Structures and Assertions, brings together contributions from forty-one leading scholars who present current knowledge and research in this pivotal era of European history.

Volume I: Structures and Assertions

This volume establishes the foundational context for understanding European history from 1400 to 1600. It systematically describes the people, lands, religions, and political structures that defined this transformative period. The content is organized into topical chapters that make specialized scholarship accessible to both academic specialists and educated non-specialists.

Expert Scholarship and Research

The handbook addresses grand themes, main controversies, and productive directions for research in this field. Each chapter presents the state of knowledge in a format useful for specialists while remaining accessible to students and general readers interested in this historical period. The work serves as both a comprehensive reference tool and a guide to current scholarly thinking.

Distinguished Editorial Team

Thomas A. Brady, Jr. has taught at the University of Oregon as President's Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and European history at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Ruling Class, Regime, and Reformation at Strasbourg, 1520-1550 (1978), Turning Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550 (1985), and Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1498-1553) and the German Reformation (1993). Heiko A. Oberman, formerly of Harvard University and the University of Tübingen, served as Regents Professor of History and Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. His notable works include The Harvest of Medieval Theology (1963), Masters of the Reformation (1977), and Luther: Man between God and the Devil (1992). James D. Tracy has been a member of the History Department at the University of Minnesota since 1966. His major publications include Erasmus: the Growth of a Mind (1972), The Politics of Erasmus: a Pacifist Intellectual and his Political Milieu (1978), and Holland under Habsburg Rule: the Formation of a Body Politic (1990).

Companion Volume

Volume 2 (Visions, Programs, Outcomes) covers the early stages of the process by which newly established confessional structures began to work their way among the populace, providing a complete picture of this historical period when used together with Volume I.